Modern Coffee Tables

If you like your home to have a unique look different from everyone else, you might want to consider choosing from a wide variety of slate coffee tables. Slate comes from the heart of active volcanoes; rock and ash that are expelled cool and meld together creating a hard, durable substance that is both beautiful and emotive.

Slate is a very unique material. It is used for everything from walkways to roof shingles because it is so durable and yet maintains its beauty year after year. Your table will last long enough and maintain its beauty so that you can hand it down to your grandchildren if you wish!

Slate coffee tables bring a room to life in any way that you wish. It can bring with it a cool elegance and sophistication or it can warm up a room and make is cozy and welcoming. These tables used to be confined to formal dining rooms but have been discovered by interior designers as perfect for private homes as well as offices and lobbies. There are no cuts or chips to worry about and it’s nearly impossible to stain slate, no matter what you spill on it!

Slate coffee tables come in nearly any style you can think of, the tops in a solid sheet or a collection of individual tiles. The tiles can be of like or different colors or shades of the same color, giving you the freedom to accessorize in different color schemes. You can have your table top with a smooth, sleek surface or choose a textured style that makes it easy to mop up spills. Cleaning a slate surface is easy, requiring only a soft cloth and a mild detergent.

If you already have a furnished room and want to accent it with a coffee table, slate comes in many colors. There is the gray that most people associate with slate but also shades of green, ebony, brown, red and everything in between as well as custom colors you can special order. Slate is the ideal material for modern coffee tables because of this abundance of color variations.

Although you might think of slate coffee tables as cool and formal, they are versatile enough to fit into any décor. When you combine slate with wrought iron it can warm up a room with a Mediterranean glow. Place it atop cherry or mahogany wood and you have a piece that complements a homey, rustic theme. Chrome or dark walnut woods combined with a slate top are ideal for more Spartan futuristic or Far Eastern schemes.

Slate is the perfect material to use in a home with an active family, too. You would have to take a hammer and chisel to its surface in order to chip it so it can endure years of schoolbooks slamming down on it or being used as a footrest when your family relaxes on the couch. It won’t crack because of a hot coffee or tea pot and if a child should decide to use it as a coloring page it’s easily cleaned and good as new.

Slate coffee tables are a good choice for a home, apartment or any space that you want to help look its best!